I want to distribute a debian virtual machine as a OVA file, in order to comply with the GPL I want to provide the source code for debian alongside the debian virtual machine.
Instead of downloading ...

I'm currently manually building a Linux image with some specific drivers for a Xilinx Zynqmp device. Aside from the main Linux tree, there are 2 other mirrored Linux repositories, one from Xilinx and ...

I have few rpm repos in my Fedora installation and I've want to download source package and got error that synchronization of rpmfusion-free-updates-source and rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source failed. ...

I'm getting the following error when trying to install the sf package in R (R/3.4.2/gcc7.2.0) on CentOS 7.
install.packages('sf')
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An answer to this question would provide insight and references about how the linux kernel source code is reviewed prior to be released?
Particular interesting aspect of this question to me are:
Who ...

Is there a simple way to retrieve the source files that built a given /usr/bin/* command (meaning also those placed there via AUR)? Is there a command I can issue through maybe a pacman wrapper that ...

Hi I am trying to automate some post-installation tasks and to have them documented on my github account. That's why I am writing a script to install some additional packets and to add couple of new ...

I am using multiple tools developed by the suckless people which are not configured via a config file but via their source code (in this case C) and then simply installed through make install. So I am ...

I have to run a command every morning after I log on to the server to enable certain company specific functionalities.
The command looks like this:
source /data/dev/int/default/somethingsomething.env
...

I'm trying to install darktable from source on Fedora 27. I've installed all dependencies, but when I run cmake I got error:
-- Could NOT find LLVM (missing: LLVM_DIR)
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:...

Is it possible to compile each and every package (that come up with Ubuntu Installation ISO) from scratch and come up with home-made-compiled Ubuntu variant ?
Where I can see, what config parameters/...

I am trying to compile the Atom text editor from source, and I'm stuck at the following error. I think its related to java. I've looked online for information on this particular error, but I haven't ...

In Ubuntu 16.04 with Bash I created a file $HOME/ulcwe/software_internal.sh that contains a function rse() without a call. The file is sourced in ~/.bashrc (which was sourced by itself) and I can can ...

I source a file each day - is it dangerous by means of filling up the disk drive (if something is written anywhere)?
Someone once criticized me here in StackExchange for sourcing a file each minute (...

I want to put a bunch of executable scripts in the .command dir (which is also executable), and then only have to source that directory in my .bash_profile. Is this possible? I can get this to work ...

I am trying to download Minecraft (from the official website). It downloads off of the internet fine but when I try to open it I am told that this is from an untrusted source and cannot be downloaded. ...

I have installed dotnet-sdk-2.0.2 the .NET SDK as packaged for Debian but I can't find the source packages. What sources are used to compile this package and it's dependencies?
I imagine it includes ...

I'm running Debian 8.9 Jessie on a Linux 2.6.32-openvz-042stab120.11-amd64 OpenVZ container.
I'm trying to use curlftpfs 0.9.1 as this version has a functionality that was removed in later versions - ...

Forgive my lack of expertise, but I'm wondering if a source code for an open source windows program can be compiled and its executable used on Linux (without Wine).
In my case it's Ant Renamer, which ...